Evil had won.
It had won a long long time ago.
But the thing was, it wasn't that bad.
You always hear about dark wizards and warlocks/monsters and dragons---all terrorizing the many royal families.
But for what?
When finally a few of the strongest and most vile of beings made a coalition together, they easily overpowered and conquered many of the 'noble and good' kingdoms.
Having done so, they looked very hard at the implications of their victory. What now? Should they just destroy everything? Knock it all down and live alone for eons?
Not at all... that would be far too boring.
Instead, they now had the opportunity to let civilization progress as they wished.
As time passed, the people became more and more and more used to their twisted reign-a sick parody of what life had been like before. In large part this was because they had made life a lot more interesting for the people.
One such favored and beloved past-time, was the Princess Pony Derbies.
Violating princesses had been the first thing on their perverse agenda and had found a way to do so... for all of time... in one of the most deliciously decadent ways possible.
Nobility was still cherished and adorned. They made sure of that-gilding the lily. Royal kingdoms were essentially large scale pet-projects of the old-evil-ones. They let the people think that the snobbish greedy kings and fierce matronly queens were in charge-or at least some prized set of figure-heads between the common and the new, true lords. Their demented gaze on young princesses had evolved into a world-wide obsession.
Princesses now had very 'special' place in society. They were idols. Cherished by all, envied by all. Growing up, they were all treated like pop stars and celebrities. And at a certain age---they would begin training for the derbies.